Garment hanger guard



Oct. 12, 1937. H. SCHWARTZMAN 2,095,618 GARMENT HANGER GUARD Filed Jan.30, 1936 fry J Patented Oct. 12, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 3Claim.

This invention relates to guards for garment hangers and moreparticularly, for use in connection with garment hangers made of wire,and has for one of its objects the provision of simple and inexpensivemeans to prevent the undue creasing of garments suspended from suchhangers.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a tubular casing orcover which is adapted to be readily superposed upon either the crossbar or shoulder supports of the hanger, the said cover being providedwith an apron which will tend to prevent the falling of the supportedgarment due to any rotation of the said tube or cover, the said apronalso providing advertising space.

A further object of the invention is to so construct the tubular coversso that they are extremely inexpensive in manufacture, yet highlyutilitarian and greatly efficient in operation.

A further and one of the main objects of the invention is to provide aguard or shield for garment hangers which can be easily and quicklyapplied to the hanger bars and readily removed therefrom.

Other objects and advantages will appear as the nature of theimprovements is better understood, the inventlon consistingsubstantially in the novel arrangement and co-relation of parts hereinfully described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, whereinsimilar reference characters are used to describe corresponding partsthroughout the several views, and then finally pointed out andspecifically defined and indicated in the appended claims.

86 The disclosure made the basis of exemplifying the present inventiveconcept suggests a practical embodiment thereof, but the invention isnot to be restricted to the exact details of this disclosure, and thelatter, therefore, is to be understood from an illustrative, rather thana restrictive standpoint.

The inventive idea involved is capable of receiving a variety ofmechanical expresssions, one of which, for the purpose of illustration,is shown in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of a clothes hanger embodying my invention and Fig. 2 is asectional view taken on line 2--2 Fig. 1.

Referring now to the drawing in detail, 5 indicates a wire garmenthanger having a suspension hook 6 and inclined shoulder supportingportions 1 connected by a cross bar 8.

As is well known, garment hangers of the con-- i struction abovereferred to are greatly used by cleaning establishments, dyers, clothespressers, etc. and after the garments are cleaned and pressed and whilestill damp they are suspended from the hangers for delivery. When leftto dry, the garment, due to its weight, becomes creased where it is indirect contact with the thin wire support.

In order to eliminate this undesirable feature,

I provide a paper shield or cover I 0 which is adapted to be suspendedfrom the cross bar 8. The said shield is made of ordinary non-flexible,lightweight cardboard or heavy paper and comprises a tubular sleeve orportion II which is partially coiled about itself and terminates in anapron I2. The tubular portion II is formed in a heated die which causessame to become springy or flexible and at all times to be under a springtension. The apron end l2 of the shield may be left in its normal rigidstate and provides an advertising medium as well as frictional means forpreventing the sliding off of a pair of trousers or other garmentsuspended from the cross bar 8 due to any rolling tendency of thetubular portion ll It will be seen by referring to Fig. 2 that anydownward movement of an article l3 suspended from the cross bar willrotate the tube II and cause the end edge I 4 of the apron frictionallyto contact the said article l3 and arrest any further downward tendencyor movement thereof. The inner terminal of the tube II is preferablyprovided with an integral angularly disposed flange or extension H whichprovides an entrance guide to facilitate the spreading of the coils ofthe tube for the easier removal of the hanger-bars from the tube.

The inclined shoulder portions 1 of the hanger may be provided withprotecting shields l5 which are similar to the shields l0, exceptingthat the aprons l6 thereof may be shorter than the aprons I2.

It is to be understood that the coiled or tubular portion II and theapron [2 are left open and are in no way cemented or sealed at theirline of juncture l1, thus allowing the cross bar 8 to be easily insertedinto the tube through the said open juncture.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent is:

1. A shield adapted to be supported on the bars of a garment hanger, thesaid shield being made of a unitary sheet of paper and comprising aflexible coiled tubular portion and an apron depending therefrom, theinner terminal of the tubular portion being also provided with anangularly disposed flange or extension, as and for the purposedescribed.

2. A shield adapted to be supported on the cross bar of a garmenthanger, said shield con- 5 sisting of a single sheet of inherentlynon-flexible paper rolled upon itself from one end for only a portion ofits length to form a tube having overlapped and unsecured portions alongone side, the remainder of the sheet being flat and forming m an aprondepending from the said tube along the unsecured side thereof.

3. A shield adapted to be supported on the cross barof a garment hanger,said shield consisting of a single sheet of inherently non-flexiblematerial rolled upon itself from one end for only a portion of itslength to form a coiled tube having overlapped and unsecured portionsalong one side, the remainder of the sheet forming garment-slippingpreventing means depending from the said tube along the unsecured sidethereof.

HARRY SCHWAR'IZMAN.

